buffet VS utf8

Made this C lib for exactly the reasons you mention. I love C but got mad at the constant bounds errors and copying.

https://github.com/alcover/buffet

Dynamic allocation, SSO, views, refcounting, etc.. are spread on various implementations.

C++ separates string and string_view. And they're not fully compatible. (Ex. you can't concat cross-type !?).

Rust has str, &str, String Box, ... ?

In the spirit of "a slice of a string is still a string", why not pack it all into a single type ? And offer security in the process.

Here's the scheme : https://github.com/alcover/buffet/raw/main/assets/schema.png

Here's the code : https://github.com/alcover/buffet

Buffet

Buffet – An All-inclusive Buffer for C\ (63 comments)

Buffet

I used https://github.com/kumkee/utf8 (along with a bit of hacking) in my toy scheme interpreter to get Unicode strings.

Had to adapt some script I found to generate character class lookup functions to make it fully work IIRC and still need to plug-in some sort of copy on write mechanism since the strings managed in a shared buffer but other than that it works pretty well…if you’re into the unicorn strings that is.